Spotlight: Señor Casaroja's Noesis

[Kaem]

About import animations of FF12? Is impossible?

[MrAdults]

Anim data is harder to guess at by looking at binary. Did any versions of yaz0r's viewer ever support FF12 anims? The only one I found just crashed on them. Disassembling his viewer to figure out the format would be much more convenient than using my shitty pcsx2+IDA hybrid debugging solution.

I just made "material expressions" up, because they're expressions, and you attach them to materials.

[LUBDAR]

too my knowledge yaz0r's tools didn't support animations...

[Devilot]

can I ask for support for Eternal Darkness: sanity's requiem for gamecube?

[MrAdults]

There's a new build up (4.01) that has some FF12 fixes. Lots of the models weren't matching the CLUTs and textures correctly and/or had some missing mesh pieces, that's fixed now.

too my knowledge yaz0r's tools didn't support animations...

That's a shame, I won't be able to get to animations for FF12 for a while then. I've been doing all of my work from my laptop, and it's a much bigger pain in the ass to do PS2 debugging there than it is on my desktop. But I'm rarely on my desktop these days.

[MrAdults]

I made a surprising amount of progress on FF12 anims without having to actually disassemble anything.

I just need to finish properly decoding the delta streams now. Which is the hard part in terms of guessing at what shit does. I wish I had a good remote debugging setup for this kind of thing. Maybe I'll finish it by next week after all.

[Devilot]

Merry Xmas to MrAdults, if he does celebrate it. If not, Happy Holidays.

[kawayide]

Can't believe ff12 has been supported, Awesome.

[MrAdults]

4.02 is up. But at some point my Xentax login got destroyed, so I can't upload the build there. You'll have to get it using the in-program auto-update, or from my personal site:

http://www.richwhitehouse.com/index.php ... hp#prjmp91

-4.02 - Partial FF12 animation support. (still don't have channel deltas working correctly, so you only get sequence base frames)
-4.02 - Added rapi.decompPRS and rapi.getPRSSize, to handle PRS compression which is used in a variety of Sega games.
-4.02 - Added an "Auto-reload scripts" option under Persistent settings->Other. Plugins must be reloaded for changes to the setting to take effect. If enabled, Python scripts are automatically reloaded when any .py file is changed under the plugins\python directory. Other scripting plugins may also choose to implement this setting.
-4.02 - Corrected an issue with animation hierarchies sometimes not being preserved when fed without models from plugins.
-4.02 - When script load errors occur, if the debug log is open and script auto-reloading is enabled, the error will not pop up as a messagebox and will instead only print to the debug log.

The auto-reload thing was added because WRS wanted it, but it's disabled by default because most users won't need/want it, and I didn't want to impose the overhead of a filesystem hook when it's not needed.

Edit: Oh, and here's a quick script I wrote to dump the PRS files from Chu Chu Rocket for the Dreamcast:

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from inc_noesis import *

def registerNoesisTypes():
	handle = noesis.register("PRS Data", ".prs")
	noesis.setHandlerExtractArc(handle, prsExtractArc)
	noesis.logPopup()
	return 1

def prsExtractArc(fileName, fileLen, justChecking):
	with open(fileName, "rb") as f:
		if justChecking:
			return 1
		compData = f.read(fileLen)
		decomp = rapi.decompPRS(compData, rapi.getPRSSize(compData))
		fname = rapi.getExtensionlessName(rapi.getLocalFileName(rapi.getLastCheckedName())) + "_decomp.pvm"
		print("Writing", fname)
		rapi.exportArchiveFile(fname, decomp)
	return 1

It would probably be better-suited to being a tool script that scans the folder for PRS files and decompresses them to a central location, but I was lazy.

[Mr.Mouse]

I would trust you can login at Xentax again, no?

[MrAdults]

Yeah, just published the build on Xentax too. Sorry it took a while, haven't been home.

[Mr.Mouse]

AAAAND a happy 2013 to all!

[Dinoguy1000]

AAAAND a happy 2013 to all!

[MrAdults]

AAAAND a happy 2013 to all!

May none of us starve to death this year.

[WRS]

The auto-reload thing was added because WRS wanted it, but it's disabled by default because most users won't need/want it, and I didn't want to impose the overhead of a filesystem hook when it's not needed

Brilliant, thanks! Now I have no excuse not to finish some of my 3D format scripts!